Rep. Mike Garcia
Representative for California’s 27th District
pronounced mīk // gar-SEE-uh
Garcia is the representative for California’s 27th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2023. Garcia is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 48 years old.
He was previously the representative for California’s 25th congressional district as a Republican from 2020 to 2022.
![Photo of Rep. Mike Garcia [R-CA27]](/static/legislator-photos/456792-200px.jpeg)
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his advisors and associates, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided by themselves rather than by voters. Their attempts to suppress state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and by using lies and fraudulent documents was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.
Garcia was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Garcia voted to omit Arizona and/or Pennsylvania from the counting of presidential electors, which could have altered the outcome of the election in Trump’s favor.
In 2023, Trump associates and top advisors pleaded guilty to submitting a fraudulent slate of electors to Congress from Georgia, making false statements about purported widespread fraud in the election, and tampering with voting machines after the election, admitted in civil court to posing as fake electors in Wisconsin, and were convicted of contempt of Congress for withholding documents during its investigation and assaulting police officers at the Capitol. Trump associates and top advisors are also facing charges for submitting fraudulent slates of electors to Congress (in Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona) and Trump himself faces criminal charges for soliciting the Vice President to subvert Congress’s certification of the election, coordinating the fraudulent slates of electors, and inciting the insurrection at the Capitol. The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups one member of which was convicted of sedition, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors.
Earmarks
Garcia proposed $31 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:
- $5 million to Los Angeles County Public Works for “Santa Clarita Valley Multimodal and Resiliency Enhancements”
- $5 million to City of Santa Clarita for “Magic Mountain Parkway Project”
- $3.0 million to Access Services for “Antelope Valley Paratransit Operations and Maintenance Facility (Lancaster, CA)”
View all requests and justifications on Garcia’s website »
View analysis and download spreadsheet from Demand Progress Education Fund »
These are earmark requests which may or may not survive the legislative process to becoming law. Most representatives from both parties requested earmarks for fiscal year 2024. Across representatives who requested earmarks, the median total amount requested for this fiscal year was $39 million.
Earmarks are federal expenditures, tax benefits, or tariff benefits requested by a legislator for a specific entity. Rather than being distributed through a formula or competitive process administered by the executive branch, earmarks may direct spending where it is most needed for the legislator's district. All earmark requests in the House of Representatives are published online for the public to review. We don’t have earmark requests for senators. The fiscal year begins on October 1 of the prior calendar year. Source: Appropriations.house.gov. Background: Earmark Disclosure Rules in the House
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Garcia is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Garcia has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to May 17, 2024. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Mike Garcia sits on the following committees:
Enacted Legislation
Garcia was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:
Does 1 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Garcia sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Science, Technology, Communications (26%) Education (22%) Taxation (17%) Government Operations and Politics (13%) Armed Forces and National Security (13%) Crime and Law Enforcement (9%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Garcia recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 8118: ACERO Act of 2024
- H.R. 8089: Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act of 2024
- H.R. 7928: To direct the Secretary of Defense to revise the rates of basic pay …
- H.R. 7686: To amend the Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act to clarify of …
- H.R. 7630: ANCHOR Act
- H.Res. 830: Condemning the Chinese Communist Party for its role in the fentanyl crisis and …
- H.R. 6144: Combatting Fentanyl Poisonings Act of 2023
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From May 2020 to May 2024, Garcia missed 15 of 2,086 roll call votes, which is 0.7%. This is better than the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- House of Representatives for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
